A Question to Recent Step 1 Graduates

[Row Jimmy]

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I am curious as to how you thought you did upon leaving the test center vs. your actual score?

Thanks for all your help,

RJ

 

[KyGrlDr2B]

I walked out having no idea. My questions weren't factual recall, but were a lot of thinking through things and i felt like I did a lot of just guessing. The more I thought about it, the worse I felt. But I ending up beating the mean.

 

[Spang]

I walked out thinking I could have scored a 160 or a 260. The only questions I could recall I looked up and I got the majority of them right. That totalled about 10 questions.

NBME CBSSA said I should have scored just above the mean (510 on form A, 3 days prior). My year two director said based on my second year exam scores I should have scored a 220.

I scored a 220.

 

[bigfrank]

This is the eternal question. No one knows what percent is required for a good score, you know? I left thinking I got between 75-80% of questions correct. I luckily remembered around 40 questions that I thought were tricky and got about 75% of those right? So, who knows?!

 

[Jalby]

I was three points off what I thought I would get.

 

[Idiopathic]

I had a dream I got a 271...

Seriously, my test ended before I thought it should and I spent the next week(!) thinking I had somehow skipped over a block entirely. I was all prepared to get my 180 back and have to file some sort of complaint. Outside of that, I did a little worse than I thought I could have, if all things had gone my way, but better than what I figured was the worst-case./

Its best not to think about it for the 3-6 weeks between testing and getting your score report.

 

[tega]

i was somewhat surprised when i received my score from my dean....still had to see the hard copy to completely believe it. Needless to say....i did less than what i expected coming out of the exam. Reminded me of my first pharm exam?.I swore the secretary switched my grade (76)?unintentionally ?.but yup, it was my grade?loool?
But when I think of it?every time I have left an exam believing I did really well?I alwyz end up ?underachieving?. But u know?.I am very content and grateful with my score I got now?.cuz it could have been a lot worse. I know people who failed the exam?so i believe I have no right to even be slightly upset.

 

[Pril]

I did better than I thought I would, I felt terrible about the exam I ended up with a good score.

 

[Chianti]

I came out thinking/expecting about a 210, based mainly on the NBME self-assessment (440, before cramming pharm in). I was 99% sure I passed the test right after the test and the next few days. But, you only seem to remember the ?s you don't think you got right and forget all the ones you know you nailed. So 4 weeks later I had convinced myself I had failed. I passed with a 203 (83).

I didn't get a wink of sleep the night before. I made some stupid, stupid mistakes that I remember. If I had gotten a decent amount of sleep I'm very confident I would've got a 207-210. Oh well, I'm happy I passed 🙂.

 

[AlexRusso]

Felt like I passed for sure but other than that had no clue about how I did. I remembered a lot of q's I thought were difficult and checked them. Got like 20 wrong for sure. Wound up getting a 253. I estimated I'd get in the 220's or 230's. for the most part I hear people get higher than what they feel they got after leaving the test center.

 

[analu]

Felt awful coming out of the real thing. Doing QBank, I marked 10-15 questions per block that I had to guess on...during the real thing, I was marking 20-25 questions. Had no real clue how well I did--figured if I got half of the questions I flat out guessed on, I'd at least pass. Did way better than I expected.

I really think that the stress of test day had a lot to do with my uncertainty. I tried to go in thinking that I'm not going to know all the answers, but during the test, I obsessed about every little detail...wore me out. Most of my classmates who felt they did average to poor actually ended up faring much much better.

 

[gmendese]

I felt kinda so-so when I left the testing center. And reading how everyone else on SDN performed on QBank and other tests, I was really worried. And the majority of the questions I remembered and looked up when leaving the center...well, I got those wrong. So I wasn't sure where I stood. I ended up with a 249/99. I was psyched to say the least! I did MUCH better than I ever imagined or any "predictor test" thought I would do.

Best of luck to you!

 

[Leukocyte]

I left prometric thinking I will score 240+.

One week later, I felt like I failed.

Three weeks later, without knowing the score, I learnt that I PASSED.

Five weeks later, my score report was in the mail. I opened the envelope, while trying to cover the score with my hand. Then, starting backwards, I started to uncover my score one number at a time.

First, there was a 1 (still there was a chance I aced that MotherF****, a 251, or 261, or 271!!!!) .
Then, there was a 2 (oh, man I was disapointed)

I think you can tell what my score was. 🙄 😡 😡 😡

 

[bigfrank]

121? sorry to hear that 😉

But seriously, nice job on your score! That's certainly above average!

 

[drdrtoledo]

I absolutely thought I failed that test. I came out of it pale as a ghost. I thought I got total beatings and studied the wrong stuff. I feel I had an especially hard test with a lot of cell bio and genetics... anyway, I ended up beating the mean. So there goes gut instinct.
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